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H. S. ROSS.

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110.401.518. Patented Apr. 16, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

HENRY SGHUYLER ROSS, OF NEW' YORK, N. Y.

REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 401,518, dated April 16, 1889.

Original application filed November 2, 1888, Serial N 0. 289,791. Divided and this application filed January 21, 1889. fierial No. 297,071. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known thatl, HENRY ScnUYLEn Ross, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mechanical Registers, of which the following is a specification, this case being a division of another application for registers filed by myself November 2, 1888, Serial No. 28.,791.

The object of my invention is to provide a device by means of which the happenings or transactions at various separate stands or branches engaged in distributing the same or diiterent kinds of merchandise, tickets, or circulars, especially tickets at horse-races, when communicated mechanically or other wise and simultaneously or separately to the central stand, may oe automatically added and their sum or sums announced by means of pointers and dials or other temporary registering apparatus, so that the amounts so announced shall. always be the sums of all the tickets, circulars, or articles of merchandise distributed at all the separate stands.

My invention consists in mechanism for adding and indicating results transmitted from various sources, and is composed of a signaling device controlled by the action. of a series of escapements corresponding; to the number of reporting stands and acting through a common mechanism to control said signal, a series of elcctro-magnets or other operating devices for said escapements, and a series of reporting-stands connected with said series of operating devices, and each provided with a device for communicating motion to its corresponding one of said oper ating devices.

In carrying out my invention I prefer to employ dials and pointers and fingers or counters to announce the amount of sale or distribution 3 but it is evident that many other ways of informing the agents at the central stand might be substituted. 1 also prefer to have the series of escapements arranged sub stantially shown. in. the drawings; but other ways of arranging them might be adopted, if preferred.

In the acconnpanying drawings it has not seemed necessary to show the reportingstamls, as the bindingposts 71 1 may represent them, nor the form of signal, as many forms thereof will readily suggest themselves to those seeking to use my system. The problem presented is how to receive and dispose of the reports,

and not how to send or show them.

More particularly my invention consists of a system of gear-wheels in an adding-machine or register composed of a pair of gears mounted loosely on a shaft, an intermediate transmit ting gear-wheel carrying a loose or running pinion which engages both said gears, an escape-wheel rigidly secured to one or both of said pairs of gears by beingmade integral with it or otherwise, and a smaller gear-wheel securely fastened by a collar or otherwise to one of another pair of gears, the whole arranged and adapted to receive through either or both of said. gears a given amount of motion and to transmit it unaltered by means of said intermediate transmitting-gear and pin- One form of my invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the addingmachine or mechanical register at the central stand and arranged to receive, add, and announce the results, the pointer being removed. Fig. 2 is a top plan of the apparatus at the central stand. Fi 3 is a detail of the loose or running pinion, by which the reports are t ansmitted to produce the desired result.

Same letters indicate similar parts in the different figures.

A. is the poweravheel, by means of which the whole or some part of the adding mechanism is moved when released by the escapements, and is mounted upon the shaft a, turning in the bearings l) Z). This wheel is turned by means of the rope B or other source of power, which, when wound up, is coiled around the drum 0 on the shaft a. The ratchet-wheel C is also mounted upon the shaft 0., and is engaged by the pawl (Z on the power-wheel, and held into the teeth of the ratchet by the spring 0, the other end of which is fastened to the wheel A, as shown Fig. 1.

Although I prefer to have the power by means of which the series of escape-wheels is operated thus stored up in one wheel, called the power-wheel, each escape-wheel might, if preferred, be supplied with an independent source of power. of having the Whole mechanism wound up at one point instead of several is of great importance in the speedy manipulation of my registering or adding system. The powerwheel A meshes with the resultant or announcing wheel D either directly or by means of intermediate gear.

The mechanism thus far described is merely the winding-up mechanism, and may be very largely varied at pleasure, the purpose being merely to have some steady pressure brought -to bear upon each and every escape-wheel, so

that when released by its escapement it will move under said pressure until again caught by said escapement. The shafts a a are hung in the bearings b b", and do not turn with the wheels which they carry. These wheels are divided into systems of six wheels each, except the last, which consists only of resultant -wheel D and gear-wheel E, both rigidly attached to the sleeve or collar g, which is hung loosely on the shaft a, and carries the pointer F on its outer end. As before stated, it has not seemed necessary to show the dials or other signaling or counting devices with which this pointer co-operates to announce the added results, as many different forms of devices might be employed for the purpose. The pointer, therefore, is shown merely as a broken rod, which might operate almost any kind of signal. I g

The systems of gears above alluded to consis't of the two beveled gears G G, the intermediate pinion, H, the geai wheel I, the escape-wheel J, engaged by the escapement K, and the smaller gear, L, engaged by the gear I of the next preceding system, except in the case of the first system, which has another escape wheel, J, operated by an escapement in place of the gear I, as there is no preceding system to operateit. I The escapements K K are operated to release the. escape-wheels J J by the armatures M M of the electr0magnets N N when an electric current is sent through them. These magnets are independent of each other, and are each connected with one of the reportingstands by an electric circuit entering at h h, In the above-described system of wheels the beveled gears G G are secured upon sleeves,

one of which carries the smaller gear, L, rigidly secured thereto, The beveled gears G G are made integral with the escape-wheels J J. The intermediate beveled pinion, H, is carried loose on the wheel I, and is hung upon the bearing j,set therein, and is free to revolve in either direction, traveling over the beveled gears G G, as on a rack, and carrying the transmitting-gear I with it.

The operation is as follows: Whenever a ticket, circular, or article of merchandise is sold or distributed at any of the reportingstands, an impulse is sent to and received by The convenience, however,

with which it meshes.

that one of the magnets N N which corresponds to that reporting-stand. The magnet, being thus charged, draws to itself the armature M, and with it the escapement K, and thus releases the escape-wheel J, and this, being under pressure from the power-wheel A, moves one tooth for each such impulse. Whatever motion is thus taken by the escape-wheel J and the beveled gear G, which is integral with it, is communicated to the beveled pinion H and the gear I, the mot-ion of these latter wheels being half that of the escape-wheel and beveled gear G. This loss, however, is made up in transmitting this motion to the smaller gear, L, of the next following system, as the latter has only half the number of teeth of the transmitting-wheel I, The beveled gear G, therefore, of this next system receives the exact amount of motion given to the escapewheel by the magnet, and in turn transmits it to its running pinion H and through all intervening systems without loss to the resultant-wheel D, and hence to the signal. The above results are obtained whether the impulses are sent simultaneously or succes sively, and this feature constitutes the great advantages gained by my system. 7

It is obvious that the number of systems may be indefinitely increased, as each system from its peculiar construction is adapted both to be the first to move for all impulses coming through its own magnet, and to receive and transmit without alteration all impulses passed to it by the preceding systems.

It is also obvious that, instead of the bevgears, an escape-wheel rigidly secured to one or both of said pair of gears, and a small gear-wheel securely fastened to one of another pair of gears, into which said transmittingwheel meshes, the whole arranged and adapted to receive through either or both of said gears a given amount of motion and to transmit it unaltered by means of said intermediate transmitting gear and pinion, substantially as shown and described. I

2. A mechanical registering system which consists of a series of escapements operated from a corresponding series of reportingstands, an adding=machine composed of a series of systems of gear-wheels and provided with an escape-wheel for each of said escapements, and with a resultant-Wheel which receives and sums up the motions given to all of said. escapements, and a pointer or other to of said escapements, and with a resultantwheel which receives and sums up the motions given to all of said escapements, and a pointer or other suitable device for registering the amounts of said motion, substantially as shown, and for the purpose specified.

HENRY SGHUYLER ROSS.

Vitnesses:

W. P. PREBLE, J12, WALLACE WILLANs. 

